Resistance to Tyranny: A Primer

Resistance to Tyranny By Col. Joseph P. MartinoResistance to Tyranny is a big picture primer for the oppressed who are seriously considering resisting tyranny anywhere in the world. In Chapter 1, Why Armed Resistance , Col. Martino takes the reader through a easy to understand walk through of the process of determining the moral justification for a successful armed resistance by borrowing, and applying, as a guideline the ethical code developed for the Just War Doctrine, element by element, of which he is an authority. He concludes, given just cause, that citizens have a moral obligation to resist Tyranny the moment resistance is justified. Since "war is an adventure from which there is no return (Pope John-Paul II)" this is easily the most important chapter in this authoritative compendium.Chapter 2-6 examine in detail the probability of success and the various factors and trends that effect the final outcome of a armed resistance to tyranny. The government's response to the resistance and the various approaches it may take to create a crisis to justify the repressive measures typically used to crush the resistance. He discusses strategy and tactics and why you need both to achieve the ultimate goal of the resistance. Col. Martino identifies the continuing key strategy of the resistance is "to survive, to survive, to survive, and the key to this strategy to by choosing to fight only when it does not endanger the armed resistance. He explains why it is critical to the success of the resistance movement to take into account the other big picture elements of the overall opposition effort that include the government, the family's of the armed wing, the population at large, threaten minorities, and foreigners in order to achieve the ultimate goal of replacing the existing government. Col. Martino discusses why a successful armed resistance also needs an apparently unconnected, unarmed and nonviolent, overt wing that is able to appear in public to gain sympathy and support from other groups within and outside the country.Chapters 7-29 examine an extremely extensive laundry-list of training, skills, operations, and logistics critical or useful to an armed resistance effort. Highlights of these include weapons, booby traps, explosive, secure camps and safe houses, secure communications, cyber warfare & hacking, intelligence, counter- intelligence, deception operations, and propaganda techniques necessary in gaining the support of the public, the world public, and undermine morale and legitimacy of the government and its forces. Each chapter is chock-full with enough detailed condensed information concerning each topic, and extensive references to more detailed supporting material, to enable a beginning resistance to initiate operations efficiently in with minimal wasted effort.Resistance to Tyranny is an extensive scholarly work that walks the reader through step by step the through the planning, and resources necessary for a resistance to be successful. Col. Martino's logic is precise as a mathematician, his examples succinct, and relevant to providing a citizens resistance organization with the fundamental knowledge necessary to begin a successful armed resistance. Resistance to Tyranny by Col. Joseph P. Martino is easy to understand, an excellent beginning for a patriotic layman, and a checklist to success for the professional soldier.As a professional combat infantry special operations veteran, and experienced soldier of misfortune in the Burmese resistance for Democracy, I cannot recommend Resistance To Tyranny enough! No other modern book on this topic even comes close.

This is not a handbook on how to conduct a Resistance, but you could spend months reading all the books in the bibliography of each chapter that do tell you how to conduct a Resistance.I was immediately impressed when I learned that criteria has already been established, internationally, as to what constitutes a "Just War," and while that criteria applies to conflicts between nations, they apply equally to a Just Resistance. There is a significant difference between a Just Resistance and criminality conducted out of rage and revenge, and a significant difference between a fight against tyranny and mere vandalism.There have been many resistances, many insurrections, many revolutions, in history and some of them were successful and many were not. There are lessons to be learned in each. The author makes few comments regarding the ideology behind these conflicts, but the few comments he makes are clearly pro-liberty and anti-tyranny. The necessity and operation of "overt resistance" in furtherance of the same goals as the "covert resistance" is discussed at length, and examples given.I should warn the reader that if he is a decent human being, some of the material dispenses with any romantic notion of fighting for the light of God and Truth and Right. This is the real thing, and if a tyranny has reached the point of requiring a "Just Resistance," people are going to be killed. I consider this a great value of this book, for there are a lot of armchair commandoes out there just itching for a heroic fight and this book makes it clear it isn't the fun and games they think it is.For anyone contemplating a future that appears certain to involve tyranny rejecting the fundamental liberties our nation was founded to preserve and protect, this book is a must read. War is nasty business, but there are rules to follow if you want to win it and still live with yourself.

Best book on the topic I’ve found. Author did a very good job

Opened the book up today... has alot of useful information, it sure is not a combat guide or anything, though it does touch basics of about everything.. it is as advertised, a primer. And a damn good one at that. Great for any American patriot, or even freedom lover from anywhere in the world! The government should indeed be there to serve us not control us.. could not agree more with anything in this world. I've been looking for professional militias to join for training and such.. no luck so far here in Kentucky. However I can at least have a good idea of what I should do in the meantime thanks to this book. It provides sheets of equipment that is needed, training tasks and other stuff to be built up a bit before I get into active militia groups.I'm a 18 year old libertarian patriot and this book hits it off with me really well. If the need ever arises, I hope I can be up to the task of securing the free state we all know and love. If you're not American, this book is still 100% relevant as it does not only talk about America, but many countries. Alot of the information is universal knowledge I'm sure would prove most useful.Now, alot of the time us gun wielding patriots can come off like we have a screw loose, but the last thing I want to do is harm fellow Americans, but tyranny cannot go unchallenged. One day we might need to secure and restore the state to it's former constitutional values. This.. is you're primer. And it's a damn good one... must have.

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専制政治に抵抗する入門書、といったところでしょうか。独裁政治に抵抗するレジスタンスのありかたについて書かれています。その戦術や戦略、防諜や諜報、訓練、サバイバル、隠蔽、セーフハウス、狙撃、暗殺など３０章から構成されており、少しですが各国のレジスタンスの歴史、独裁国家の特徴、及び圧政傾向になるプロセスも紹介しています。ただ序文でも紹介されている通り、本書はマニュアル本ではなく、さらに興味がある方は、各章で紹介される参考文献もしくはHPにアクセスして勉強して下さいとあります。それでも有意義な事がまとめて書かれているので、一気に飽きずに読破する事ができました。また参考文献の本も過去に良書があったので良しとしました。著者の基本的な考えはアメリカ式で常に戦備（銃などで）せよとありますが、我が国では極めて難しいと思いました。ただ狙撃と暗殺の章は興味深かったです。最後のページのパトリックヘンリーの引用文は現在も圧制政治と戦っている人達に共通している心理なのかもしれません。余談ですが、本書が購入した時より値段が上がっているのでびっくりでした。